Jonathan Cohn reports on report on Aetna’s strategy on linking Exchange participation and the rapid approval of their merger. the move also was directly related to a Department of Justice decision to block the insurer’s potentially lucrative merger with Humana, according to a letter from Aetna’s CEO obtained by The Huffington Post. TLDR: Nice exchanges …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: GOTV (and Run Out the Clock)
Dem odds of Senate takeover increasing by the day: 6 of 8 GOP candidates now polling worse than pre-convention: https://t.co/fYnnlMVUy2 — Susan Davis (@DaviSusan) August 16, 2016 Via front-pager Kay, from the NYTimes, “Early Voting Limits Donald Trump’s Time to Turn Campaign Around”: Advisers to Donald J. Trump keep reassuring Republicans that there is still …
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Revisiting MLR
Raven Onthill in yesterday’s post made a comment about the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) regulations that I’ve seen in a couple of places and I think it is an understanding that is wrong and needs to be discussed some more: more-or-less guaranteed 15+% gross profit isn’t enough to keep insurers in the exchanges? Capitalism is …
Late Night Paranoia Open Thread
Trump is bringing someone who openly works with Putin's propaganda channel Russia Today to get his first classified intel briefing. Amazing. — Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 16, 2016 Something happening here… I have absolutely no idea how to judge to quality of the latest Alarming Security News, which is why I’m sharing it with you …
Today in Black People are the Real Racists
Trump goes to a white rural town, and in front of an all white audience, reads a speech to the cameras telling black people to vote for him. — Mat Johnson (@mat_johnson) August 17, 2016 So Donald Trump gave a speech on race tonight. I’ll pause here so you can grab a drink. … … …
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GOTV optimization
This evening, my wife and I were door knocked for the first time this election cycle. A very earnest paid canvasser from a union backed entity asked us half a dozen questions, got our contact information and engaged in small chit chat. He stayed on our porch for ten minutes as a nasty but brief …
Trump’s Wisconsin Rally – Now a Policy Speech on Law & Order
Apparently the rally is now a teleprompter driven policy speech on law and order. Live feed embedded below:
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